Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-26

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DCounty Treasurer RBgers went To-
peka yesterday on official business.
The Original Bad Boy troupe is ex-
pected here for next Wednesday night,
Feb. I'd.
Sheriff Nelson will move into the
rooms being built for the sheriff in the
court house as soon as they are COM
p.eted.
If Medicine Lodge loses the present
opportunity to become city, she will
probably wait several years before as
good chance presents itself.
Marriage licenses were granted on
the 18th to Richard +. Reed and Miss
Hattie Tyrell, of Elm Mills, and on:the
22d to Thomas Betting and Miss
Louisa d. Grumm, of Sun City.
The handsome plate glass windows
for the Thompson building have been
placed in position, and the structure
is rapidly taking on finished appear
ance. 1t would be an ornament to any
city.
The new residence and extensive
barn of I. F. Marquand, west of town
one mile, are about completed, and now
he has one of the most comfortable
places in the county, and one of the
most valuable.
The Christian church in this city has
now splendid opportunity to organ
ize fine choir for the coming year, and
those interested in the matter, and es-
pecially those who wish to join the
choir, are requested to meet at the
church at O'Clock Saturday night.
Judge Edwards has been over the en-
tire route of the Southern Kansas ex-
tension from this place to Lake City
and has succeeded in buying the right
of way from a number of persons
whose farms the road enters. There
appears to be disposition to magnify
the damages, and commission will
have to settle with a majority of the
land owners.
The mother of Mrs. Henry Morgan is
here on visit to her daughter. When
she left her home in Indiana, there was
fourteen inches of snow on the ground,
and the mercury was trying to crawl
through the bottom of the thermome-
ter. She can scarcely believe that the
bright, warm and sunny weather we
have had here is a specimen of our win
ter. She is delighted, and don't want
any more Indiana winters.
The Paladera Town company had a
meeting Monday night. The resigna-
ton of w. w. Cook, as president, was
received and accepted, and ID. j. Aber
was elected to fill the vacancy. Mr..
E. w. Kline was employed as surveyor.
The locating committee was instructed
to get wagons, tents, food, and every
thing needed, ready to move at once,
and report at the meeting to be held on
Friday night. The committee will be
expected to move out on or before the
first of February. Several persons took
certificates of membership. Those who
expect to become members should be
present Friday night, and get their GER
tificates.
We understand that the Kansas and
Panhandle railroad company will fur
nlsh satisfactory evidence that the Mis-
sourl Pacific company will accept and
operate the line of road it is proposed
to build from Kingman to this city, and
west from here to Sun City, and that
this evidence will be forthcoming be-
fore the township elections to vote
bonds are held. We have confidence in
this being done, and had we not, we
would certainly advise every one to
vote down the Kansas and Panhandle
propositions. Barber county will not
be trifled with. The townships of Med
icine Lodge, Mingona, Lake City and
Sun City have no intention lof being
tied up for year, especially this year,
which is to be the great era of railroad
building.
Sun City Union: Uncle Tom
Whitaker and Aunt Evaline returned
from their visit to Granada. Col, last
Saturday. Uncle Tom says he can be
put down as one of Sun City's ''solid
stayers" hereafter. There will be a
masquerade ball given at the 1. o. y. F.,
hall in this city on February 18th. Ev-
erything will be done to make the affair
as pleasant as possible. Good music
will be secured and fine supper furn-
ished. The Kansas & Panhandle r.
r., ask of us So, 900 shares in the road.
They will build ten miles of road in this
county, for which, at the lowest esti-
mate they Will be assessed at the rate
of $4,000 per mile, or 100000 for this
township alone.-VOte for the bonds.
Every laboring man in this city must
admit that the building of the South
ern Kansas railroad to Medicine Lodge
was the signal for the town to improve;
for buildings to be erected and for con-
slant employment and good wages for
every man who desired to work. Dur
ing all of 1885 and 1886, when the
weather would permit, there was per-
manent employment for labOrers and
mechanics, and the wages paid were as
high as in any of the neighboring
towns. Then we would like to know
how any laborlng man can consistently
oppose another railroad coming here.
1t would insure more building; it
would decrease the freight on all ar
ticles of merchandise and thus reduce
the price of such articles and living ex-
penses would be further reduced by
coal being cheaper. 1t would be well
for every man interested in the pros
perity of this city to think well over
these facts before he declares his OPP
pOsion to all railroad bonds.
An Arraaahla Rururiaa